On Sunday 25 February 2001 15:12, Togan Muftuoglu wrote:
Hi everyone,
As I was reading the Howto's I have always wondered why it is mostly that they are talking about Redhat. Now that I am interested in the Linux router project it became Debian ?
Can someone lighten me up with information on why it is either Redhat or Debian but not Suse. there has to be something else then marketing and the $ since AFAIK debian is pure GNU Togan,
I wonder if the same is true of documentation which originates in German. WRT $, there may be someting of a polarity showing itself here. To much of corporate America Linux means RH Linux. It's the CocaCola syndrome - name recognition. The fact that many software vendors and even consortia tend to say their product 'runs on R**H** Linux', rather than 'runs on LSB compliant linux' doesn't help. On the other side of the $ question are the purists who think that RH has sold out to corprate America. These people therefore see Debian as the *only true Linux.* My hope is that SuSE can continue to improve their quality control to the point where bying SuSE means it works right out of the box. If companies see that their IT pros can work more efficiently and effectively with SuSE, they will have a reason to favor SuSE to RH. The same is true of the home user. If the configuration is easier, and the hardware support is better, people will chose SuSE. I cannnot honestly draw comparrisons. I have only used SuSE. It would be nice to have enough resources to install several different OSs and run comparrisons to see which actually does work the best. Every time I get a clean hard drive I install SuSE, then I start configuring it to do things. When I think I should try Solaris x86, for example, I realize I would have to dissrupt the SuSE box where I would install it. That never happens. I did install Solaris x86 on a cean HD the other day, and It has some nice features. I then tried to find bits for the KDE and didn't see any. Well, the box now has SuSE on it, and it's running quite well. I almost installed RH over the net, but when I looked at how they do it, I decided it was too much of a hassle. Steve